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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Dec 2019
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    One of the annoying things about my current research on temporality is that there are several big fat books everybody (correctly) regards as essential references that I don’t have the patience to read fully.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Dec 2019
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        I’ve snacked, sampled, browsed, and read around them enough to be confident in my assessment that I get what they’re about. I can to situate my ideas in their context, and have extracted what I need. But there’s still this niggling good-student sense of phoning in my homework.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Dec 2019
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        During my PhD my advisor or somebody offered a wise heuristic: for every 100 references you collect (and 100 is the minimum to claim mastery of a subject) and grok the basic point of, you actually shallow read maybe 10, and deep read maybe 3-5.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Dec 2019
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        The strategic trick is realizing that the 3-5 you go deep on are almost certainly NOT going to be the consensus seminal references in the field. That’s a recipe for boring incrementalism. You get interesting results by putting weird, unexpected obscure picks in your top 5.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Dec 2019
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        Still, this is hard when a subject is dominated by gravity field of big fat books. It’s like operating in Jupiter orbit. Engineering research is like the asteroid belt. Mostly papers. If it’s a big fat book, it’s already a textbook in civilized core, not part of the frontier.

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Dec 2019
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        Research on temporality is shaped by the gravity field of a few big fat books: J. T. Fraser’s Time: the Familiar Stranger Proust’s In Search of Lost Time The Einstein-Bergson debate (an event with a fat literature attached) David Landes’ Revolution in Time

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      7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Dec 2019
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        My own starting points/key references are much more obscure, but can’t avoid contectualozing with these big mountains

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      2. 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 🄵🅁🄴🅂🄷‏ @rhyolight 6 Dec 2019
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        Are you interested in temporal memory systems?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Dec 2019
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        Depends on what you mean by that 🙂. It is vague enough it could point to anything from specific computing architectures to Jeff Hawkins work to Proust.

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      1. Semaj ‘somewhat “civil’ servant”‏ @SeafaringJ 6 Dec 2019
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        The essence of Gödel, Escher, Bach 🙊 Absolutely groundbreaking work, no question [but too many other ?s] Couldn't live without it tho

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        Here's one not very fat but big (coffee table) and at least a bit obscure though by NatGeo. Don't remember who gifted this or why I bought and didn't spend time reading.pic.twitter.com/L6FhfV4j8G

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